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...spiritual nature of man, and in the human dignity which results from the fact that man has his origin and destiny in God. Such beliefs provide a constant and powerful compulsion toward peaceful change toward a better world . . . During a period when international Communism was forcibly extending its dominion over more than 650 million alien people . . . the free nations were according independence to 17 nations with aggregate populations of around 650 million. Thus we have the most dramatic contrast between the dynamic liberalism of free societies and the brutal reactionism of those who glorify physical power...
With appropriate fireworks and flag-waving, the former British Dominion of Pakistan last week celebrated its official birth as the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Governor General Iskander Mirza was formally inaugurated as President, replacing Queen Elizabeth as chief of state. To observe the occasion, the U.S.S.R.'s brush-mustached First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan flew in with an eleven-man Russian delegation. Ignoring the rude remarks directed at pro-Western Pakistan by Bulganin and Khrushchev on their recent visit to India, Mikoyan quickly got down to business. Russia, he said, "is prepared to give Pakistan all the industrial...
...another aim in making Jamaica a model Caribbean island. A start has already been made toward federation of Britain's Caribbean colonies (TIME, March 5), and Manley, who returned from London last week, envisions the day when all the colonies will be joined in a new British Commonwealth dominion. When that day comes (probably in 1958), Chief Minister Manley wants Jamaica to be the new nation's richest province-and, of course, its logical capital...
Under the gradually slackening reins of colonial dominion, Nigeria has achieved a high degree of national prosperity. In 1954 its favorable trade balance of exports (cocoa, palm oil, peanuts) over imports reached a record $100 million. Even among the slums and squalor of beggar-strewn Lagos there are startling evidences of a middle-class prosperity: neat two-story homes in Ikoyi suburb, equipped with every modern convenience; a ramshackle bar in Shopono Street doing a hotcakes business in the best imported beer at 35? a bottle. A block from Ibadan's new University College, Nigerian necromancers sell dried mice...
Said Albert Clifford Ashforth, president of the Toronto-Dominion Bank: "Canadians never had it so good. In 1955, they produced more, imported more, exported more, earned more, spent more, consumed more, borrowed more, saved more and invested more than in any previous year...